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Explore the world with Tim Peake
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With this new service Facebook is finally making location-based ads useful
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Apple redesigns Maps and opens it to developers
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Today Apple held its annual WWDC event where every year it unveils new features to its software and systems. iOS 10 got a few significant updates, including more interactive Messages and a more useful Siri....
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Google I/O had some very interesting location keynotes and some big announcements about Project Tango. One of the interesting keynotes that we didn't get...
Detailed map of light pollution around the world
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With Drive, Mapbox now has its sights on the in-car navigation market
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Lenovo announced the first phone with Google Tango
Today Lenovo announced a new range of three smartphones that will be available in stores around the world later this year. There is the Phab...
Game of Thrones: Mapping the places where it was filmed
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Drones are no longer just the domain of the military. They are already changing the way we deal with many problems and it seems that the possibilities...
You can now become Google Maps beta tester
During the company’s I/O developer conference last month, Google announced a new initiative to give users an easier access to beta versions of its...
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Last month we wrote about the first topographic map of Mercury - the closest planet to our sun located 48 million miles (77 million km) away from...
Police can request your Location History from Google Maps Timeline
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Pebble Core is a new GPS tracking cube which you will love
Pebble - a company that invented a smartwatch has just released a new gadget which will be appreciated by every GeoGeek.
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Amazing map of air traffic network
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Uber will now use Foursquare POI data to make it easier to find your...
Uber and Foursquare announced a partnership. The ride hailing company will incorporate Foursquare’s Places data in it’s app. The aim is to allow both drivers...
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GPS in our phones in an amazing invention. It connects the virtual space of the Internet with the physical world. Smartphones can quite precisely pinpoint...
Google Maps will be all about ads with sponsored pins and logos
Google spends $1 bln each year to keep Maps up-to-date and to make the user experience better. It is not surprising that the company...
Mongolian post will use what3words for national addressing system
For centuries Mongolians were keeping nomadic lifestyle moving from one place to another. Due to that reason, Mongolia, although nearly as big as the...
PwC opens drone mapping division in Poland and it’s a milestone for the whole...
If you’ve ever had a chance to work with one of the Big Four consulting firms you must have noticed that these guys are good with...
France is banning drones during Euro 2016
Drones are an amazing piece of technology and a lot of fun but when they get into the wrong hands that can be very...
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Facebook Live Map allows you discover real-time video streams based on their geography
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Apple opens Maps production unit in Hyderabad, India with 4000 employees
How to tell if a mapping company is mature? When it opens a data production unit in India. Today Apple announced the opening of a...
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Searching for Location data that is openly available for a particular region can be daunting task if you are not someone who knows where...
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Do you also know the feeling of a total frustration when waiting your package to arrive? The new service by UPS is trying to...
Google I/O Live Stream
Google is live-streaming the IO event and apparently its (this) easy to embed a widget to live-stream the event, so just in case you...
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Waze is testing Uber-like ride-sharing service
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The SeaDrone is a simple but powerful underwater robot
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O-Robotix, a start-up from Menlo Park, California has...
Google is all set to test autonomous cars with (real) test drivers
Google has made no secret of its plans to launch an autonomous car in the near future and it look one more step in...
Indoor Mapping and AR at Google I/O: Project Tango
Google I/O is less than 48 hours away and if you have been following the event, there is one project that features prominently across...
Drones will replace $127bn worth of human work according to PwC
Google and Amazon are both planning to launch drone-based delivery services next year. But according to the new report by PwC - one of the...
Apple invested $1 billion in Chinese Uber
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Two centuries of U.S. immigration on a single map
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The first topographic map of Mercury
Mercury, the closest planet to our sun, now has an accurate topographic map. But how do you make a map of the whole planet...
Google rebrands Skybox Imaging as Terra Bella
Back in 2014, Skybox Imaging made the headlines for its 500m USD acquisition by Google Inc. It's interesting to note Google's comments on the...
Where’s the nearest… Electric vehicle charging station!
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When2Leave? Get an alert when the traffic dies down!
Traffic information can be really useful especially when you have to plan your daily commutes. You can check the map apps for traffic information....
This is how the in-dash navigation should look like
Even in the age of smartphones most people would agree that build-in navigation systems are a useful feature in your car. They offer larger...
Problems with the Geospatial Information Regulation Bill 2016
I had first heard about a proposed legislative bill from the Hindustan Times a few weeks back. At that time, I thought it would be best...
